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Biography |
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1933 |
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Began painting at Augusta Savage's Uptown Art Laboratory |
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1946 |
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Began exhibiting with Marion Willard Gallery,NYC-numerous solo shows |
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1952 |
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Exhibiited in "Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America" MOMA |
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1956 |
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Represented US at 1956 Venice Biennale |
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1963 |
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Founding member of Spiral, a group of African-American Artsts |
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1969 |
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Organized Cinque Gallery with Romare Bearden and Ernest Crichlow |
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1976 |
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First retrospective exhibition, Norman Lewis: A Retrospective, Graduate School and University Center of the City University of NY |
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Studied at Columbia U. and the John Reed Club Art School |
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Accepted into Federal Art Program of the Works Progress Administration(WPA) |
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Founding member of Harlem Artists Guild |
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Taught with Ad Reinhardt at Thomas Jefferson School of Social Science, an alternative school in NYC |
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